The Czech Republic

Fifteen Years Later

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2397700
AutoresJan Keller (0000-0003-4660-6844, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen8
Número4
Páginas471-485
Fecha de publicación2005-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1368431005056424
OpenAlexW2131425012
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas3

This article discusses some aspects of developments in the Czech Republic during the 15 years since the downfall of the Communist regime. At the level of social structures, the dominant trend has been a rapid growth of inequality, which has blocked the development of a middle-class society. At the political level, the most salient tendency is the growth of a 'silent majority', not least due to the murky methods of privatization and the manifest corruption among the new elite. The problems of the ecological movement exemplify the difficulties faced by nascent civil societies in post-Communist conditions. Finally, the author tries to identify likely trends linked to the dynamic of globalization. Here the most serious problem is the stagnation or even decline of the employees and small entrepreneurs who were once expected to become the backbone of civil society

Civil society · Communism · Czech · Development economics · Economics · Elite · Globalization · Inequality · Language change · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Salient · Sociology · Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies · Law · Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition